Salve

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

1) Old Swedish and Norwegian modern form of Salvi (see Sǫlvi) ^[1]

2) Latin salve = 'hail! welcome! farewell!' (see also Ave and Vale) ^[1]

Related Names

Salve	♂

Name Day

Norway

20 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1905 (in modern times) ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Härjedalen ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[2]		4	4	47	77
Sweden[3]		1	2	0	3
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	4	n.a	4
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Salve.

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [2] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi